Information here changes from time to time. Check out our [http://tinyurl.com/statedbs last seven days'] or [http://tinyurl.com/statedbs14d 14 days'] worth of activity. Another parallel project of note is the [[State Blue Books]] project.

Information here changes from time to time. Check out our [http://tinyurl.com/statedbs last seven days'] or [http://tinyurl.com/statedbs14d 14 days'] worth of activity. Another parallel project of note is the [[State Blue Books]] project.

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If you have questions about this project, please contact: [[Special:EmailUser/Dcornwall|Daniel Cornwall]], SADATFS Project Coordinator

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If you have questions about this project, please contact: [mailto:danielcornwall@gmail.com Daniel Cornwall], SADATFS Project Coordinator

*Tourism databases - Some states have databases of tourist activity, top attractions, economic impact, etc.

*Tourism databases - Some states have databases of tourist activity, top attractions, economic impact, etc.

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If you have used our project to build a subject listing, we'd love to hear from you. Please e-mail the project coordinator at the address at the bottom of this page.

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If you have used our project to build a subject listing, we'd love to hear from you. Please [mailto:danielcornwall@gmail.com e-mail] [mailto:danielcornwall@gmail.com Daniel Cornwall], our project coordinator.

== Other Project Resources ==

== Other Project Resources ==

Revision as of 11:07, 12 September 2013

In every US State and the District of Columbia, agencies are creating databases of useful information - information on businesses, licensed professionals, plots of land, even dates of fish stocking. Some of this content is available on search engines, but much of it is part of the invisible web.

Since July 2007, librarians and other government information specialists have been working on identifying and annotating these databases in one place. We've chased across fifty state web sites so you don't have to! ALA RUSA named this site one of its Best Free Reference Web Sites of 2012!!

State Agency Databases Across the Fifty States

Click on a state name below to find a list of databases by agency. The individuals listed below have agreed to serve as a documents specialist for that particular state, periodically checking the page for broken links, looking for new databases and accepting changes from people not comfortable with editing wikis.

If you are a registered user and you don't see something on a list that should be, feel free to add it as long as the resource is meant to be available to the public and is produced by a government entity in the listed state.

Historical Newspaper and Magazine Indexes - Databases that index articles in older newspapers, journals and magazine that contain historical information. These databases will usually lead one to microfilmed items that may be obtainable through Interlibrary Loan.

Museum Collection Databases - Catalogs of state museum holdings which often have historical notes. Museums listed here are either run by a state or by one of the state's political subdivisions

Prisoner Locater Tools - Find prisoners for a number of states, some information on released inmates available in some states.

Future Subject Lists - Below is a listing of topics people have expressed interest in seeing multi-state compilations on. Feel free to start one of these topics or start your own state-database related topic.

Campaign Finance / Lobbyist Information

Curriculum Guides and materials - Produced by many state education departments.